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new girls team stuff is in

This is the best we have ever looked

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food of champions

Kyle and his beast food.

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new team bags

One of our loyal sponsors, asanaclimbing. Com has comeup with custom bags for us this year. Man they look great. Thanks adam and jamie and everyone at asana.

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puccio on the cover of outside magazine

Way to go. This is nice to see.

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i like eating

great article from the straight dope on diet and climbing.
i was taught at an early age that it is a lot easier to get light than get strong.
being older i still believe that to some degree, but obviously ive learned to do it right. for example, donuts from mighty O and voodoo are essential to maintaining stremphf. but a few days of strictly fruits and vegetables and proteins is ok too.
steve edwards breaks it down in proper fashion without hitting the danger levels.

i wanna go here.

from 8A

Alex places 17th at youth world championships

with a good run, alex placed 17th overall this morning in the semi final round of youth worlds. a very respectable and top notch finish for any young climber from any where. at this event, they only take 8 to finals, which is very hard to do. i hope everyone understands the level of the competition at this stage. pretty much every boy in that category climbs 5.14. the europeans are beast. and they do not let up. alex should be proud. i know i am.
he took this more seriously than most people on US team. Kynan called me and told me he climbed with the type of heart he is looking for in US team members. he even mentioned alex's drive in one of the team meetings. i have seen so many kids and their families feel that youth world championships is a vacation. it is not. if you are going to go, you better work your ass off to make your country and your climbing team proud. otherwise you should give up your spot to someone who will train and train and train.
alex did this. he worked hard and his result proved it. everything he did this summer lead toward this event. i am proud of him and i know his team is too.

hold fairy

the hold fairy came by the gym today with some grips you all may recognize from a certain rooftop. they have now made their way onto our 45 at seattle.
sydney and I had a chance to session. it was nice as i havent sessioned in what seems like a couple months.

O-town and Teo-town at index

one thing that we have always done here on climbing team is given nicknames to some of the climbers. there is no process or theory behind it, it usually just comes to my mind and then they are stuck with it. well O town was named this way because of the awesome boy band from early 2000's. and Teo-town, well, you can see the resemblence.

little si today

made it out to si today with bhops, otown, bret and emma. felt like team 2006. fantastic. it was wet as usual.

stone summit gym

stone summit gym

jon siegrist's smith rock trip report
sounds like boulder local jon siegrist is having fun down at smith. so many classics down there. he is with paige claassen whom i know from youth world championships and other comps.

indoor rock climbing is radical

member appreciation day at redmond gym

went out to the redmond gym for the member appreciation day. saw some old friends.

sean and audrey @ seattle gym

couple cool shots from Bob Scoverski (ScovoPhoto@gmail.com) of sean and audrey